Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising

all this dukkha has craving and clinging as a cause.

sometimes the mind won’t settle down until the energies have been opened and unblocked through some letting go.

The mind has been dragged away from the perceptions immediately given at contact, and become embroiled in a process where a sense and identity of one’s self, of the self of another, and a solid-seeming issue are all being fabricated together. And these fabrications are dukkha.

Mindful observation will reveal that any craving or clinging is always accompanied by, and reflected in, blocks and knots in the subtle body.

Believing then that this real self can really gain or lose real things or experiences which have real qualities, grasping and aversion, and thus dukkha, arise inevitably.

that craving is based on a fundamental mistake in the way we see and intuitively sense our selves and the whole world of inner and outer phenomena.

It is also possible to use the breath or the mettā to help elicit and support the pervasion of this sense of well-being. Simply sensitizing to, and enjoying, the way we feel the energetic resonances of the mettā or the breath throughout the whole space of the body – opening to and finding delight in their reverberations there – can gently move the

Too easily we can become caught up in measuring the ups and downs of our focus of mind and miss the bigger picture of what we are cultivating.

The feelings of relief and release then are indicators to us that insight is happening, that we are on the right track.